GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Latent Trait Measurement and Longitudinal Analysis/4800116

Course Title:	Latent Trait Measurement and Longitudinal Analysis
Credits	3	ECTS	8
Course Semester	2	Type of The Course	Elective

COURSE INFORMATION

-- (CATALOG CONTENT)

-- (TEXTBOOK)

-- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)

-- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- COURSE OBJECTIVES

-- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	Introduction to longitudinal analysis
2. Week	Between-person analysis and interpretation of interactions
3. Week	Introduction to within-person analysis and model comparisons
4. Week	Latent Variable Framework for Growth
5. Week	Modeling the effects of time
6. Week	Describing within-person change over time
7. Week	Introducing random effects of time and model estimation
8. Week	Midterm evaluation
9. Week	Interpretation of growth factors
10. Week	Representing the shape of change over time
11. Week	Modeling the effects of predictors
12. Week	Time-invariant predictors
13. Week	Time-varying predictors
14. Week	Analysis of individuals within groups over time
15. Week	Introduction to growth mixture modeling
16. Week	Evaluation

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	1	20
Assignment	0	0
Application	4	20
Projects	1	20
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0

Percent of In-term Studies		60
Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score		40

-- WORKLOAD

Activity	Total Number of Weeks	Duration (weekly hour)	Total Period Work Load
Weekly Theoretical Course Hours	14	3	42
Weekly Tutorial Hours			0
Reading Tasks	14	3	42
Searching in Internet and Library			0
Material Design and Implementation			0
Report Preparing	8	5	40
Preparing a Presentation	10	3	30
Presentation	6	3	18
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam	2	10	20
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam			0
Other (should be emphasized)			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			192
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.68
Course Credit (ECTS):			8

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Assoc. Prof. Nilufer Kahraman)

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(https://www.niluferkahraman.com/)

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(nkahraman@gazi.edu.tr)

Gazi University